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Originally Posted by Sauron the White
It puts the current rights holders in a position of damned if they do and damned if they do not. If they make a film and ignore the actual book length SIL and fill in all the blanks on their own from the Appendicies, they risk ridicule, derision and potential damage to their ability to market and do business with their product because "its not the real thing. You made most of this up and we can prove it by comparing the real book length SIL to your movie".
That situation did not exist when the film rights were sold in 1969. Now it does.
The publication of the SIL has greatly compounded the situation and created overlapping rights. I have said that the current rights holders could make a case that they now have a property which has been diminished.
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Ah, I think I understand where you're coming from now. The publication of
The Silmarillion didn't make any difference to the
ownership of the film rights to the LotR Appendices– what it did is make those rights (arguably) not worth having. Is that it?